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Heathrow runway will create £16bn burden for TfL
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-sept ember.org, Recliner wrote: Looking at the evening peak, there's 23 trains leaving Gloucester Road between 17:00 and 18:00, split 11 to Heathrow (6:5 between the T4 and T5) and 12 towards Rayners Lane (7 to Uxbridge). There's 23 between 18:00 and 19:00, now split 13:10 (still 7 to Uxbridge). That's not "much more intense". Those figures don't sound right. I've been using the Piccadilly line Rayner's Lane branch since well before the Heathrow extensions opened, and the service used to be split evenly between the two western branches. Now, I sometimes have to wait for three or even four Heathrow trains to pass before a Rayner's Lane or Uxbridge train shows up. I find it really hard to believe there's any hour in the day when more trains go to Rayner's Lane/Uxbridge than to Heathrow. My observation is that at least 60% go to Heathrow. Those figures were taken straight from the TfL on-line timetable pages. Yes, *but* that wasn't the basis they were ordered on. True, but in effect some of the S stock trains have replaced Piccadilly trains transferred from the Uxbridge services to Heathrow. I don't know if that is true, because I don't have service data for the various branches over time. You'd have to show that (a) the Uxbridge branch gets a better peak service now than in the past (peak since that's when most trains are used) and (b) that requires more trains than before rather than being done through better turnaround. Somebody (not me) who keeps old issues of Underground News could look for old working timetable information. -- Clive D.W. Feather | Home: Mobile: +44 7973 377646 | Web: http://www.davros.org Please reply to the Reply-To address, which is: |
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Heathrow runway will create £16bn burden for TfL
Clive D. W. Feather wrote:
In message -sept ember.org, Recliner wrote: Looking at the evening peak, there's 23 trains leaving Gloucester Road between 17:00 and 18:00, split 11 to Heathrow (6:5 between the T4 and T5) and 12 towards Rayners Lane (7 to Uxbridge). There's 23 between 18:00 and 19:00, now split 13:10 (still 7 to Uxbridge). That's not "much more intense". Those figures don't sound right. I've been using the Piccadilly line Rayner's Lane branch since well before the Heathrow extensions opened, and the service used to be split evenly between the two western branches. Now, I sometimes have to wait for three or even four Heathrow trains to pass before a Rayner's Lane or Uxbridge train shows up. I find it really hard to believe there's any hour in the day when more trains go to Rayner's Lane/Uxbridge than to Heathrow. My observation is that at least 60% go to Heathrow. Those figures were taken straight from the TfL on-line timetable pages. Strange, my experience is very different. Is that hour atypical? It certainly seems that way to me, a regular user of the line. Yes, *but* that wasn't the basis they were ordered on. True, but in effect some of the S stock trains have replaced Piccadilly trains transferred from the Uxbridge services to Heathrow. I don't know if that is true, because I don't have service data for the various branches over time. You'd have to show that (a) the Uxbridge branch gets a better peak service now than in the past (peak since that's when most trains are used) and (b) that requires more trains than before rather than being done through better turnaround. It's my very strong anecdotal memory, but not something I can prove. But it's not necessarily the case that the Uxbridge branch gets a better service overall (though I think it probably does), just that a much higher proportion of the trains are now Met rather than Picc. There is a frequent Met service at Uxbridge now, but a very infrequent Picc service. And I don't think there are any Picc reversers between Rayner's Lane and Uxbridge (eg, at Ruislip or Ickenham) any more; the reversers now no longer get beyond Rayner's Lane. Somebody (not me) who keeps old issues of Underground News could look for old working timetable information. I don't keep mine either. |
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